A ridiculous run-around with COVERS
I have had more problems nailing down a cover on this book than I ever have with any book EVER.
It's so strange, and I think part of the problem is that I never nailed down the FEEL of the book because I keep re-working the same story...
I love this cover. Love it. But I feel like it promises a funny, sexy, read, and so the tone is a little off...I do think that we should all write fan mail to Nyrae Dawn and have her write the book with these two in it...
So I went for this one - The guy is pretty perfect for scruffy Brandt, but it feels safe, and almost... boring... I don't want that.Ashley is this kind of cool, funky girl - and despite the millions of reasons Brandt shouldn't fall for her, he does anyway...But no couple is exactly right because he's just over ten years older than her... So, that makes it hard, too. My first cover was simply legs - a couple obviously hugging or maybe kissing, and that worked, but I knew it could be better. Or at least I THINK it could be better, but now I'm remembering how much I love this picture... The hippie shoes are sorta perfect for him... Maybe with some shading or sepia or...
Now I'm playing around with this idea, because this girl is Ashley exactly, but I'm worried she seems too young, and that it'll look YA, when it's not... But she is just 22...
Here's the blurb:And I've changed this book (again) to be alternating POV between Ashley and Brandt so we can get his side of the story, which, the more I think about it, is sorta crucial... She's a 22 year old law student and he's a 33 year old father of two teens...
In Ashley’s mind, her new neighbor Brandt is definitely a “Clive Owen” - one of the few perks of her move halfway through law school. The other perk is getting as far away from where she grew up as possible.
With a best friends’ ashes in a jar in her room, and a million reasons she’s determined to finish law school and put bad guys in jail, she’s also decided she wants to get to know this “Clive Owen” neighbor better.
Brandt is just trying to stay afloat as a single father of two teens—both of which he had when a teen himself. The last thing he’s looking for is to fall in love, but when his new neighbor, Ashley, finds her way into his life, it's as if he's found his missing piece. But Brandt knows he doesn’t deserve this kind of happiness. Not after the way he let his family fell apart.
Just when Brandt and Ashley find some common footing in the way they feel, Ashley goes to her internship, opens a file, and it shatters everything she’s learned about the family next door.
Both Brandt and Ashley are in a fight to forgive their pasts, navigate the present, and to find a way to hold on to the future they started together. But with everything on the line, and so much to overcome, they begin to wonder if their happily ever after is worth the struggle.
HELP??Do I just start over??Make Allie Brennan save me?Again?
~ Mia Josephs ~
It's so strange, and I think part of the problem is that I never nailed down the FEEL of the book because I keep re-working the same story...
I love this cover. Love it. But I feel like it promises a funny, sexy, read, and so the tone is a little off...I do think that we should all write fan mail to Nyrae Dawn and have her write the book with these two in it...
So I went for this one - The guy is pretty perfect for scruffy Brandt, but it feels safe, and almost... boring... I don't want that.Ashley is this kind of cool, funky girl - and despite the millions of reasons Brandt shouldn't fall for her, he does anyway...But no couple is exactly right because he's just over ten years older than her... So, that makes it hard, too. My first cover was simply legs - a couple obviously hugging or maybe kissing, and that worked, but I knew it could be better. Or at least I THINK it could be better, but now I'm remembering how much I love this picture... The hippie shoes are sorta perfect for him... Maybe with some shading or sepia or...
Now I'm playing around with this idea, because this girl is Ashley exactly, but I'm worried she seems too young, and that it'll look YA, when it's not... But she is just 22...
Here's the blurb:And I've changed this book (again) to be alternating POV between Ashley and Brandt so we can get his side of the story, which, the more I think about it, is sorta crucial... She's a 22 year old law student and he's a 33 year old father of two teens...
In Ashley’s mind, her new neighbor Brandt is definitely a “Clive Owen” - one of the few perks of her move halfway through law school. The other perk is getting as far away from where she grew up as possible.
With a best friends’ ashes in a jar in her room, and a million reasons she’s determined to finish law school and put bad guys in jail, she’s also decided she wants to get to know this “Clive Owen” neighbor better.
Brandt is just trying to stay afloat as a single father of two teens—both of which he had when a teen himself. The last thing he’s looking for is to fall in love, but when his new neighbor, Ashley, finds her way into his life, it's as if he's found his missing piece. But Brandt knows he doesn’t deserve this kind of happiness. Not after the way he let his family fell apart.
Just when Brandt and Ashley find some common footing in the way they feel, Ashley goes to her internship, opens a file, and it shatters everything she’s learned about the family next door.
Both Brandt and Ashley are in a fight to forgive their pasts, navigate the present, and to find a way to hold on to the future they started together. But with everything on the line, and so much to overcome, they begin to wonder if their happily ever after is worth the struggle.
HELP??Do I just start over??Make Allie Brennan save me?Again?
~ Mia Josephs ~
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